er340790,
I would tend to agree that in this day an age, having video evidence would be helpful. Of course, having video evidence in the cockpit would also be a massive boon but most pilots wont have it.
In the case of Air Chance, it matters very little. The Concorde investigation was fixed with almost every salient piece of damming evidence against Air Chance omitted.
If the recorders in this accident head off to Paris, the truth will end up somewhere else as well.
Maybe we could save ourselves a lot of bother and check to see if there was a Continental DC10 taking off ahead of the landing A340. If there was, then its an open and shut case.